2022-12-31-accounts - Parkgate And Neston United Reformed Church Charity

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Parkgate & Neston United Reformed Church Charity

Parkgate Road, Neston CH64 6QF

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES For the Year Ended 31st DECEMBER 2022

This report includes information required by the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2011 and the Statement of Recommended Practice for Accounting by Charities 2005 as applicable to charities entitled to prepare accounts on the receipts and payments basis

CHARITABLE STATUS

Parkgate and Neston United Reformed Church Charity is a local church of the United Reformed Church in Great Britain and is a member church of Mersey Synod of the URC. It was entered on the Register of Charities on 2[nd] March 2012 as Charity number 1146217.

TRUSTEES

The members of the Elders’ Meeting for the time being are recognised as the charity trustees.

Those who served from 1st January 2022 until the date this report was approved are:

Dr. D. G. Vale Chair from October 2021 Mrs. M. A. Fewtrell Secretary Ms J. Cash Mrs. E. A. Clowes Mrs. S. M. Davies Mr. B. D. Jones Mrs. P C MacDonald Mr. A. Meehan Mrs. S. Vale Mr. F. Wood

PREMISES

The Church buildings and the manse at 31, Moorside Avenue, Parkgate, Cheshire are vested in the URC Merseyside Synod as trustees and held for the benefit of Parkgate and Neston URC in accordance with the trusts applicable to URC properties.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

The activities of Parkgate and Neston United Reformed Church are overseen by the Elders’ Meeting of the Church in accordance with the provisions of The Structure of the United Reformed Church determined by the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church and supplemented by the rules of Parkgate and Neston United Reformed Church. The governing document of the registered charity is a statement adopted by the Church Meeting on 13[th] September 2011.

The Elders’ Meeting is responsible for the financial administration of the Church, and the care and maintenance of Church premises and the manse. The Church

Meeting (of all members wishing to attend) gives general guidance on the life and work of the Church.

The Elders’ Meeting includes the minister, in pastoral charge, and elders nominated and elected at the Parkgate and Neston United Reformed Church Annual General Meeting. Elders serve for four years, when they are eligible for re-election. The members of the Elders’ Meeting are the trustees of the registered charity during their period of service as elders.

The Elders’ Meeting convened 11 times during the year. It is assisted in the administration of the Church and its property by committees established for specific purposes. Any expenditure incurred by the committees must be approved by the Elders’ Meeting, and any proposed major expenditure must have prior approval of the quarterly Church Meeting.

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

As a local congregation of the United Reformed Church, Parkgate and Neston United Reformed Church seeks to advance the Christian faith and benefit the public through its activities and the facilities offered to the community.

The Elders’ Meeting is aware of the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit in "The Advancement of Religion for the Public Benefit" and has regard to it in the administration of the Church.

The Elders’ Meeting believes that the Church provides benefit to the public by:

• providing resources and facilities for public worship, pastoral care and spiritual, moral and intellectual development, both for the congregation and for anyone else who wishes to benefit from what the Church offers

• promoting Christian values and service by members of the congregation to the community, for the benefit of individuals and society as a whole.

REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES

The church continues its activities in promoting the Christian faith, holding Sunday services and by running study groups and fellowship meetings during the week. The church, together with other local congregations, is involved in a number of community activities including supporting the running of a Food Bank in Neston and a school uniform scheme. Regular donations in kind have been made, via the church, to West Cheshire Food Bank, Asylum Relief, a women’s refuge and the ‘Shoebox’ appeal.

The church continues to maintain and improve the hall for the use of community groups as well as for church events, and provides volunteer workers for, and/or subsidises the activities of, a number of the groups.

The community groups using the church and hall include: -

English Country Dancing Flower Arranging Make it Monday – a craft group producing items for overseas and local charities.

Men’s Group Neston Civic Society Neston Singers

Pilates Scottish Dancing Tai Chi University of the Third Age (U3A) Choir, History Poetry, Pilates, Photo and Dancing groups. Women’s Guild

Other groups in the community use the hall for occasional events and the hall is used as a Polling Station for Parliamentary and local elections.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Income was adequate to meet the church’s expenditure, and church members and others supplied additional funds to improve accessibility and facilities. Additional income will be required in 2023 and fundraising will continue when restrictions are eased.

Details on the attached financial statements are allocated under the following headings:

Unrestricted Funds : Ideally, the Elders’ Meeting would wish to have in hand an amount equal to at least 2 months’ regular expenditure as "free" reserves, to meet future shortfalls in income or unexpected expense. The balance on 31 December 2022 is adequate for this purpose.

Designated Funds : Funds allocated by the Elders’ meeting. The ‘Cyclical Maintenance’ fund is a reserve to cover larger building repairs, etc.

Restricted Funds represent bequests, donations and fund-raising items received for a specific purpose, and cannot be used otherwise without the consent of the donor.

‘Support of Outside Causes’ (most of which is included in ‘restricted funds’) represents moneys raised during church activities and passed via the church accounts on to the respective charities.

This report was approved by all the Trustees and is signed on their behalf by the Church Secretary.

Mary Ann Fewtrell 23/03/2023

…………………………………. …………………….. Mrs Mary Ann Fewtrell Date

PARKGATE & NESTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS Year ending 31 December 2022 RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS AccouKr Il¥l•i FundB Ij 2021 TIAal Fur#J• Fur 2022 Tot41 RECEIPTS Frgwlll Olfwl 42.614 42.114 15,149 412 2254 11,7YJ Fund r19 (lt ¢08 Mone ralsed for autside c•J¥es Gmt Akl Tax 25 10519 10.491 10891 1 14.775 14.775 510 7028, 510 Chel•r Ro•a URC 1125,. 31 In•urano• clalm 'Bank inteiÈst& In¥tTh inoo 240 1 12 PAYMENTS Mlnls & Ml8•lon Fund ,Mlnl• x ',Chuv¢h runnl ramme xbvi 5ts. Cam ramm¢ tty costs. Oth support.ol outsld• cau M81ntsr cl chur¢h bulldl run 39.7SI 39.758 ,' 42394 19m3 , 19.603 , 557 19Y24 3.513 1951, 2.1FA ' 324 Tot41 70 71673 NET RE¢ErnAYMEPtrs 12 TRANSFERS b8iweén fiTrr#J ,TRANSFERS t*twe•Tr fur CASH FUNDS t¥7¥fvJ 1 Janua 'CASH FUNDS 31 Oqcember STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND UABILITIÉS MONETARY ASSETS C••hiCh4uM In Tian¥lt Bank curient xcounts It ¥counts 5.870 4.393 i 18.318 6533B 41.352 Apwov•d by thfr Church PAo•tl •Id on 1•1 March 2023 and n•d on Its b•half by ni8tse Tru$lè• 2•NaT3A Tl)roughout Some totals iiiay be affected by the roundiiig of calculations

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